ZIMBABWE UNIVERSITIES PREPARE FOR GOVERNMENT CUTS TO WAGE SUPPORT
May 26th, 2015
State -owned universities in Zimbabwe have started gearing for full commercialisation of their activities after the cash-strapped government warned it could cut its salary obligations to state higher education institutions by 50% in the near future.Although there has been no official policy pronouncement from the Zanu-PF government, University World News has been told that its higher and tertiary education minister Oppah Muchinguri has advised vice chancellors from all state universities to start focusing on commercial projects. The reason – they need to ...
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